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For the past couple of months, I’ve been building up a new bike as a general transportation bike, as opposed to the racing bikes that I own.

I’m doing this because at some point earlier this year, I came to a number of realizations that left me absolutely no choice – I needed this bike.

My infallible and irrefutable underlying reasons for yet another bicycle:

1. I love riding bikes – it’s just dang fun.
2. I hate driving – it makes me angry and stressed.
3. I ride about 10,000 km a year training and racing, but don’t actually go anywhere.
4. I love adjusting, fixing and tinkering with bikes.
5. I live pretty darn close to where I work (less than 6.5km and that’s the long way).
6. I live pretty darn close to other things (grocery stores, other shops, etc).

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